Shiliu couldn't help but remain silent.
Seeing Shiliu appearing in front of them for no reason, Aokiji and the others were surprised at first, and then they all made preparations to take action.
"One of our own."
Feeling the tremendous pressure coming from her face, Xiliu couldn't help but hold back these words.
... ... ... .
As Shiliu was moved to the lobby on the first floor by Luo, Mod looked at the last person to be dealt with - Blackbeard.
The information hovering above Blackbeard's head was not the Devil Fruit ability as expected by Mod, but his physical constitution.
This fact surprised Maude, but she soon felt relieved.
Not to mention Blackbeard's innate physique, which is different from ordinary people, as far as his endurance to withstand beatings, he is definitely not much weaker physically, and it didn't take long for Blackbeard to eat the Dark Fruit.
Therefore, it makes sense that Blackbeard's strongest star is his physique.
Maud stared at the nine solid stars above Blackbeard's head.
The intensity of the orange light emitted was even better than Runti's.
"Nine-star level physique... If Runti's orange light is at the elementary level, then Blackbeard's orange light is at the intermediate level. I wonder if Blackbeard's experience value will allow me to successfully condense the tenth star frame..."
Maude thought silently.
After a few seconds, Maud turned to look at Luo and asked, "Do you need to take a rest?"
He was worried that Yi Luo's current physical strength would be difficult to support the research on Blackbeard's body.
"No, just 'scanning' is much less labor-intensive than 'operating'."
Luo shook his head towards Maud, and immediately placed Guiwei properly on the table.
Maud hummed and said, "Let's get started. Let's see... what kind of structure this guy's body is."
"room."
Luo Buji opened a domain space with a diameter of only three meters and covered the unconscious Blackbeard in it.
The smaller the space in the field, the greater the accuracy and power.
"scanning!"
Luo stared at Blackbeard with a glint in his eyes.
In the domain space, a blue beam of light was imprinted on Blackbeard's body, starting from the top of his head and slowly moving towards the soles of his feet.
The beam moved very slowly, showing Luo's prudence and carefulness.
Maud watched quietly.
Last time, I studied the body of the Celestial Dragon, but this time I changed it to Blackbeard.
Speaking of which, the Celestial Dragons claim to be gods, and Blackbeard is a member of the D clan and is known as the natural enemy of gods.
First, I studied [God], and then I studied [God’s natural enemies]. It’s quite interesting to think about it this way.
A few minutes passed and the scan was over.
Luo's ability to remove the fruits of the operation kept panting.
After returning to the terrifying three-masted ship from Dressrosa, he had only partially recovered his physical strength when he was called by Mod to extract the Devil Fruit. Now, after carefully scanning Blackbeard's body structure, his physical strength was restored without any surprise. Once overdrafted.
If he hadn't been trained by Mordet, he might have died from overwork one day.
Maude looked at the panting Luo and resisted the urge to ask about the result.
After waiting for two or three minutes, Luo's breathing finally calmed down.
"How about it?"
Seeing Luo's breathing becoming more stable, Maude asked.
Luo looked at Blackbeard's body, with a strange look in his eyes, and asked: "Maud, do you know about the 'chimera'?"
"Chimera?"
Maud was startled when he heard this, and his expression became a little strange.
Because of a certain incident in the Hunter World, Mod was not only not unfamiliar with the term chimera, but actually understood it very well.
"I know something about it, so what you're saying is that Blackbeard's body... is related to the 'chimera'?"
"right."
Luo glanced at Maude in surprise. He didn't expect that Maude also knew about chimeras.
"If I hadn't read the relevant content in an old book, I wouldn't have known that 'chimeras' exist in the world... In fact, in the known history of medicine, there are many things related to 'chimeras' I can count the examples on one hand.”
As he said that, Luo looked at Blackbeard's body carefully.
"This is the first time I've seen a living chimera with my own eyes."
"Yeah… "
Maude touched her chin, surprised, and suddenly thought of a certain possibility, and asked: "Luo, if we use Blackbeard's body as a reference, can your surgical ability... be able to transform people into 'chimeras'? ?”
"Um?"
After hearing Maude's words, Luo couldn't help but think deeply.
Chapter 222 Do you want to be the king of the world... I'm so sorry.
The so-called chimerism means that an individual has two or more types of cells and genes in his body.
The immunological meaning refers to the coexistence of two or more cell lines with different chromosomal compositions in an organism.
They can tolerate each other, do not produce rejection reactions, and are in a chimeric state with each other.
Sometimes it can also be regarded as an organism with different traits in the same organ. In layman's terms, it is an intersex person.
People with this condition are often accompanied by symptoms of extreme energy, and sometimes symptoms of multiple personality disorders.
In short, chimerism means that there are more than one gene in an individual, and they do not exclude or conflict with each other.
As for whether the symptoms of multiple personality disorder are related to the symptoms of chimerism, it is relatively unconvincing.
This is what Maud knows about chimeras.
But this knowledge may not necessarily apply to the world of One Piece. As Luo said, in the history of medicine in the past, there were not many examples of chimeras, and they can be counted on one hand.
However, in the world of hunters, the existence and phenomenon of chimeras are generally recognized to a certain extent.
Among the wide variety of organisms, there are even organisms such as chimeric ants that can ingest the genetic elements of their prey through eating, and then pass on the biological characteristics of the prey to their offspring.
It seems to be a biological manufacturing factory in the sense...
In a sense, this ability is very similar to the swallowing fruit in the world of One Piece. It is through swallowing and then combining different creatures into individuals.
The difference is that chimeric ants inherit the biological factors they eat into their offspring, and the ability to swallow fruits is more like a transformation ability.
Relying on this knowledge related to chimeras, the moment Maud heard that Blackbeard was a chimera, she immediately thought of the possibility of using the fruits of surgery to transform a normal person into a chimera.
The hypothesis he put forward made Luo fall into deep thought.
The surgical fruit can be said to be the most special existence in the superhuman system. It not only has the ability to perform surgery on the [soul], but also has the ultimate ability to grant immortality to the body.
In comparison, just using surgery to transform a normal person into a chimera is not impossible in Luo's view.
But no matter how perfect the theory is, the results ultimately depend on practice.
“It’s possible in theory, but not necessarily in practice.”
After pondering, Luo gave Maud a pertinent answer.
"Really... It doesn't matter, just start preparing for this research today."
Maude was very excited and looked forward to the final results of this research.
Luo Wenyan nodded.
As long as he can help Maude, he will do his best to complete it.
But from his standpoint and perspective, he really doesn’t understand the significance of this research.
It's natural for Luo to be confused about this.
After all, with the intervention of the butterfly Maud...
Although Blackbeard did not miss the war, he was not able to first obtain Whitebeard's Shock Fruit ability like in the original work, and then in front of the whole world, extremely arrogantly displayed the dual fruit ability that was beyond the knowledge of the world.
Without the occurrence of this original incident, even if Luo used the surgical fruit to discover the secrets of Blackbeard's body, it would be impossible to associate this incident with the dual fruit ability.
After the rampage in [plot], the only person who knows all the details is Mod, the time traveler.
"Are you wondering why I do such a thankless job?"
Maude saw Luo's doubts and asked before Luo raised his doubts.
Luo Zheng wanted to ask out loud, but he didn't expect Maude to take the initiative to mention this, so he nodded slowly.
Maude smiled slightly when she saw this.
"Then have you ever thought about it, since at least two different genes will coexist in the body of the chimera, does that mean... plural genes, there is a high probability that they can withstand multiple devil fruit abilities? No, it should be said... can withstand multiple powers. The devil factor."
"Um?"
Luo's eyes narrowed sharply and he looked at Maude in surprise.
He didn't know what to say for a moment, but this reaction just showed that he instinctively agreed with Maud's statement.
"Chimera, dual-fruit ability user...?"
After a brief moment of surprise, Luo subconsciously looked at the unconscious Blackbeard lying on the ground, with a strange light shining in his eyes.
Following Luo's gaze, Maud also looked at Blackbeard.
"Luo, isn't there an excellent guinea pig here that can test the 'hypothesis'? Just feed him a Devil Fruit and you can get the results immediately."
After saying that, without waiting for Luo's reaction, Maud opened the shadow box and took out three devil fruits, namely the sticky fruit, the ton-pressing fruit, and the flying fruit.
He currently has fifteen Devil Fruits in his collection.
If he wanted to experiment with Devil Fruits, he would naturally have to use Devil Fruits that he thought were relatively weak in value.
In this way, even if something happens to the Devil Fruit used for experimentation, there will be no heartache.
"Experimenting with a Devil Fruit is something that only the Celestial Dragons can do..."
Luo Momo looked at the three devil fruits that Mod took out from the shadow box, thinking silently in his heart.
Maude looked down at the three devil fruits and said to herself: "Sticky fruit, ton-crushing fruit, flying fruit... which one should I choose?"
The previous owners of these three Devil Fruits were all members of the Don Quixote family.
In Mod's impression, these previous owners had developed their Devil Fruit abilities to a shitty degree.
Needless to say, the sticky fruit is a defensive, control and counterattack ability that can resist armed attacks. Torrebol actually used it to stick things and throw objects...
The ton-pressing fruit is even more outrageous. It is obviously an ability that can greatly increase the pressure of attack in close combat, but it was used by the previous owner Mahabaisi to increase his weight as the main means of attack.
Finally, there’s the flying fruit…
It’s hard to describe how much it was developed by its previous owner.
Maude thought that it would be better to use the ability of flying fruits in the freight business. As long as the ability is used to turn heavy and space-consuming goods into thin strips, one freight trip can be worth a hundred trips for others.
It's better to have money rolling in naturally than to be wasted like that.
"Just take the sticky fruit."
Maud thought for a moment and finally decided to experiment with sticky fruits.
He put the Floating Fruit and the Ton-Pressed Fruit back into the Shadow Box, and then came to Blackbeard with the Sticky Fruit.
Without Maud's special instructions, Luo had already taken Blackbeard's heart in his hand, quickly glanced at the membrane wrapping the heart, and asked:
"Maud, do you want to forbid two fruits?"
"No, one is enough. If Blackbeard is still alive after eating the sticky fruit, put the second fruit into the film."
Maud looked at Blackbeard's heart, which had only a piece of fruit stuffed in Luo's hand, and immediately started the experiment.
He roughly stuffed the sticky fruit into Blackbeard's mouth, making sure that part of the fruit pulp had slid down Blackbeard's throat before stopping.
Then, Maude took two steps back, looked down at Blackbeard, and waited for the result.